10 a.m. A janitor discovers a human torso in a suitcase in Montreal in the city’s Snowdon district

11:15 a.m. A receptionist at the Conservative Party of Canada headquarters receives a package via Canada Post, and opens it partially before calling police

11:20 a.m. Ottawa police respond to a call from the party headquarters about a suspicious package stained with blood

2:40 p.m. Police confirm there is a human foot inside the package

5:30 p.m. Police emerge from the Conservative party headquarters carrying a yellow plastic bag with the package inside

9:30 p.m. Ottawa police confirm they found a second body part — a hand — inside a package at the Ottawa Postal Terminal, where mail is processed. This package was not destined for the Conservative party headquarters.

Two packages that contained severed body parts were both mailed to Ottawa from Montreal, police said Wednesday.

Ottawa police said they will turn the investigation over to Montreal forces and offer whatever assistance they can, the Ottawa Citizen reported.

The first grisly Ottawa discovery was made yesterday morning when a blood-splattered package was sent to the Tory main office just a few blocks away from Parliament Hill. A human foot was inside.

Just hours later, authorities intercepted a second package containing yet another severed human body part — a hand.

Investigators carried out the second package in a brown paper bag from a Canada Post sorting plant through which every letter or package sent to or from Ottawa travels.

Police X-rayed the bag before they opened it to find the hand. Police said the package with the hand was not destined for the Conservative Party of Canada, but wouldn’t say where it was to be sent.

They did say it was not destined for a residential address.

Police knew the second package was mailed from the same source and tracked it with the help of Canada Post. According to the CBC, the body parts will undergo forensic testing to determine if they came from the same person and if that person was alive when the parts were severed.

Canada Post has so far refused to comment on whether they plan to beef up security measures after the human body parts found their way into the postal system.

“I can’t tell you anything right now,” said spokeswoman Anick Losier. “We’re just collaborating with the police.”

Many in Ottawa have been set on edge ever since the first reports of the severed foot sent to Tory headquarters began to spread.

“It’s just awful,” said Conservative MP Brad Trost, who showed up at party headquarters not long after the first package was delivered yesterday.

“I don’t think any of us are thinking this necessarily has anything to with politics.”

Meanwhile in Montreal, detectives on Tuesday combed through a crime scene where a torso was found in a suitcase in the city’s Snowdon district.

Mike Nadeau, 49, said he’d noticed a smell coming from the suitcase in the past few days.

“Today I noticed flies and when I looked closer I saw maggots,” Nadeau said. “I got a friend and we got some cutters because there was a little lock on the suitcase. What I saw when we opened it is hard to describe. There was no head and [the torso] was all grey.”

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He said he did not believe there were any limbs attached to the torso. Nadeau backed away from suitcase quickly and called police, he said.

The torso is male, Montreal police said, and they plan to release its identity soon. But so far they haven’t linked the torso to the body parts in Ottawa.

“For the moment, we cannot link the two together,” said Montreal police spokesman Daniel Lacoursière.

With files from the Ottawa Citizen, The Canadian Press, and Josh Visser and Allison Cross, National Post

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